Has been hit by 2 major setbacks with the presidential election in a little over 3 weeks.
The Campaign Director of the in Bauchi State, Alhassan Bawu left the party for the the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
He defected to the PDP with other officials of the party in the Northeast blaming the lack of LP structure at the State, local and ward levels for their decision.
Announcing his defection in Bauchi on Tuesday, Bawu said: “The LP is not strong and won’t be able to win a single seat in the region.’’
“We don’t want to waste our votes and we want to use this time to mobilize votes to who can win the election,” he added.
He said all the chairmen of the party, state and zonal officers as well as national officers from the zone have defected to support the PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar.
Another setback for Peter Obi is the resignation of the LP presidential campaign spokesperson for Northeast, Muhammad Pantami, and other officials who also defected to the PDP.
Pantami and other top officials of the Obi-Datti campaign announced their defection at a press conference on Tuesday.
The former Labour Party chieftains publicly declared their support for the PDP’s presidential candidate, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar.
The LP chieftains accused Peter Obi and the party of tribalism, godfatherism, and lack of internal democracy.
Pantami said: “Based on the aforementioned issues raised, we the leaders, and stakeholders of about four million voters in the North East states of Taraba, Adamawa, Bauchi Gombe, and Borno, resolved to quit from the LP and resolved to declare our full support to Alhaji Atiku Abubakar of the PDP.”
According to him, the mainstream political decisions of the party and the presidential campaign council are tilted towards a particular region, the southern part of the country, thereby sideling northerners.